. Bulletin (Pennsylvania Game Commision), no. 11. Game protection; Birds. PhotoRraph by J. N. Morton Wild grapes provide excellent game food and cover. should be encouraged along fence rows, old dumps, stone quarries, gullied areas and other unused corners of the farm. A great many of the trees and shrubs, as well as vines, including the valuable wild grape, which produce desirable foods for upland game, are more or less objectionable to the forester whose aim it is to produce the greatest volume of wood on a given area. Unfortunately, most of the food-producing species have little or no lumbe
. Bulletin (Pennsylvania Game Commision), no. 11. Game protection; Birds. PhotoRraph by J. N. Morton Wild grapes provide excellent game food and cover. should be encouraged along fence rows, old dumps, stone quarries, gullied areas and other unused corners of the farm. A great many of the trees and shrubs, as well as vines, including the valuable wild grape, which produce desirable foods for upland game, are more or less objectionable to the forester whose aim it is to produce the greatest volume of wood on a given area. Unfortunately, most of the food-producing species have little or no lumber value and are con' sidered undesirable by the forester and are termed "forest weeds.'' The ultra-scientific forester, failing to realize their inestimable value to wild life, looks with disdain upon these "forest weeds" and desires above all else to replace them with lumber trees. Fortunately, most foresters in this country, not being of the ultra-scientific type, appreciate the fact that wild life in our wooded areas has a great economic value and realize that the so-called "forest weeds" are essential to its existence. Penn- sylvania's State Game Lands and State Forests, almost 2,000,000 acres of good hunting territory, and owned by the Commonwealth, are man- aged in a practical way under the direction of trained foresters. There is little likelihood that these men will ever sacrifice too large a proportion of game-food producing "forest weeds" to make way for comparatively few additional lumber trees. Planting of shrubs, trees and vines which will produce food for game and small birds should be carried on extensively by sportsmen and lovers of wild life. The Pennsylvania Game Commission have been setting an example for a number of years through their Game Protectors and Game Refuge Keepers, and have planted much of the available areas under. Photograph by Dr. C. S. Apgar Planting of clumps of evergreens will make more cover for game on th
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